zygote

in a sentence

Zygote.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

One egg, one sperm, one zygote, divided, sharing one complete set of genetic markers.†  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Identical, 2008

This is the zygote.2 For here "I lost my land" is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate—"We lost our land.†  (source) John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939